When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

Compromising and conforming to the world’sstandard is against God’s Word.

Proverbs 21:15 NIV:When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

Art is too important not to share.